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    Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming

    Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 30, 2019 · 1 h 46 min
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    Donald Knuth is one of the greatest and most impactful computer scientists and mathematicians ever. He is the recipient in 1974 of the Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computing. He is the author of the multi-volume work, the magnum opus, The Art of Computer Programming. He made several key contributions to the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms. He…

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